Ex-metro Atlanta church leader admits to grooming, abusing teen

A former Cobb County church leader has been sentenced to decades in prison after pleading guilty to multiple child sex crimes involving a teenage boy.

On Feb. 9, Marcus Kendall Turner, 34, of Acworth, pleaded guilty to all 11 charges against him in Cherokee County Superior Court.

According to the Office of the District Attorney, Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit, Turner admitted to two counts of aggravated child molestation, two counts of child molestation, one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes, one count of obscene internet contact with a child, four counts of sexual exploitation of children, and one count of cruelty to children in the first degree…

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